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South Africa sports a wide range of wild fauna but tigers are not among them. Contestants on reality tv shows may not know this but the only places you will see tigers in our beloved country is in the circus or zoos. You can’t drop a tiger off in the Kruger Park and expect it…

Welcome to the bi-weekly dose of vitriol that we call the Press Tent buckle up, my dear old things. When the whistle Blowers A momentous occasion at Lord’s this week as England made it two series wins out of two under Joe Root, Ben Stokes turned in yet another startling all-round display on his inexorable…

The Press Tent returns and we open with an apology to the West Indies, we are sorry we didn’t believe in you, you glorious gentlemen. West Indies cricket – an apology: exclusive to all papers Recent coverage of the West Indies cricket team, including such descriptions as “the worst Test match team I have seen in…

England’s annihilation of the West Indies in the first test at Edgbaston provides the perfect context in which to explore the budding market for spread betting. This is a form of gambling unlike anything you have ever known and offers the potential to make a huge profit in a short space of time. You have…

Few things in cricket are better than an epic chase that forces matters to be decided by the final balls. Here are the biggest comebacks in cricket history across five different competitions. 9 May 2003: West Indies vs. Australia (418/7 in 128.5 overs) Despite losing the first three tests to Australia, the Windies put forth…

How sad that the Caribbean cocktail hurricane served up this week in the Midlands had destroyed itself by the time it touched our lips. This should have been the aperitif to the main South African course, which was in itself undercooked. The international summer in England has not been a vintage one. Four landslide victories…

Welcome to the Press Tent, we know why you’re here so let’s crack on with getting you up to speed with the goings on in our beloved world of cricket. Analysing the Analyst We’ll say this straight up. We don’t have a lot of time for Simon Hughes. Even before those execrable Kia adverts,…

It doesn’t take expert analysis to pick out what went wrong for the Proteas in their series loss to England. Plainly they did not score enough runs with just one hundred partnership and a single individual century the batsmen must shoulder the blame. The fact is that this is not a new problem, in the…

Welcome to your bi-weekly dose of snark from the world of cricketing journalism, this edition is a doozy so dig in. Transfer silly season In the week that Neymar swapped Barcelona for Paris in exchange for the GDP of a small country, cricket has also enjoyed a big week of transfer action. Cricket is, though,…

Welcome to the Press Tent your bi-weekly dose of snark and sarcasm from the world of cricket journalism. Cricketers’ Media Training 101 Now, here at the Press Tent we’re always among the very first to complain about over-trained sporting automata trotting out bland platitudes selected by their operating system. We have no time for “good…